Meliès against multinational companies

29.03.2008

Last speaker in this discussion, Michel Raluy have managed to get a big ovation at the end of his intervention. In an observatory which has as a slogan ‘Future is in the contents’, the programm’s director of Mecal festival has tackled the problem plainly. Introducing himself as “one more user, like everybody”, he has defined new technologies of information as “mere tools”. “Now it’s two years ago that we’re doing things the opposite way- he has stated. Meliès invented special effects just because his ideas needed them; now we’ve got multinational companies releasing new technological stuff just for selling it”.